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A printed copy of the Diamond Sutra, dated to 868. 2 ratings Hardcover 37.62 19 Used from 30.54 16 New from 28.74 Dunhuang Manuscripts, the book, is an introduction to medieval China and the Silk Road focusing on the content, form, and significance of the manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang.

The contents of the Library Cave have proven to be some of the most significant and important documents in the history of central Asia, including the following: Growing impatient, Wang Yuanlu instead sold off a few thousand of the manuscripts to European archaeologists to fund his restoration efforts. Local officials ordered him to seal it back up again so that it could be properly preserved. Opening the hidden door, he discovered a cave packed to the ceiling with ancient manuscripts, some dating as far back as the caves’ founding one and a half millennia ago. Nine hundred years later, in 1900, a Taoist monk named Wang Yuanlu was cleaning up and restoring part of the Magao Caves when he found the entrance. Something happened in the 11th century CE – perhaps the threat of invasion – and the manuscripts were sealed up in a secret room within the temple and forgotten by history. The book makes a contribution to the study of cultural and linguistic interaction along the Silk Roads.Zossolino, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commonsįor more than a thousand years the caves were a key site for Buddhist worship, and accumulated a large cache of manuscripts from across the Medieval world. Dunhuang Manuscripts, the book, is an introduction to medieval China and the Silk Road focusing on the content, form, and significance of the manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang. Lionel Giles (18751958), the first scholar to recognise the contents of this manuscript, dates the manuscript to the late Tang Dynasty, about 900 AD. As a result, it was much less ‘Chinese’ than commonly portrayed in modern scholarship. Discover Dunhuang Manuscripts - An Introduction to Texts from the Silk Road by Chunwen Hao and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. The manuscripts in the Dunhuang library cave date from the 5th century up to the early 11th century, when the cave was sealed.

The central argument is that the manuscripts attest to the unique cultural diversity of the region during this period, exhibiting-alongside obvious Chinese elements-the heavy influence of Central Asian cultures. This study centres around four groups of manuscripts from the mid-ninth to the late tenth centuries, a period when the region was an independent kingdom ruled by local families. The discovery comprised tens of thousands of texts, written in over twenty different languages and scripts, including Chinese, Tibetan, Old Uighur, Khotanese, Sogdian and Sanskrit. Numerous other ancient Silk Road sites in Chinese Central Asia yielded other important artefacts, paintings, textiles, coins and manuscripts in over twenty. The manuscripts have been discovered in 1900 in a sealed-off side-chamber of a Buddhist cave temple, where they had lain undisturbed for for almost nine hundred years. The Magao Caves, popularly known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, were a key point on the Silk Road that. “Dunhuang Manuscript Culture” explores the world of Chinese manuscripts from ninth-tenth century Dunhuang, an oasis city along the network of pre-modern routes known today collectively as the Silk Roads. Dunhuang Manuscripts - An Introduction to Texts from the Silk Road (Hardcover) Shopping cart You can help us transition eBooks & Audio Books Shop Us on. On June 25, 1900, tens of thousands of important historical manuscripts were found in a secret room within the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in Dunhuang, China, where they had been hidden for nearly a millennium.